When I was very young I had a huge vocabulary. Mostly from reading comics and classics before I ever got to school. I had to teach myself to read because no one knew what dyslexia was, so there was no way I was going to be taught if I didn't do it. So by the time I got to first grade I had read Verne and Swift and some Twain & Wells. When I said "Provender" in class, nobody knew I meant food (bread specifically) so I was taken aside and told to "speak so the other children understand." Now, just as I will not back off of using "blue words" when they are called for, I choose to use my old buddy "Purple prose," that I learned from the pulps and the classics. The language is so spare in its flexibility that we should get to use any wordage we can that truly expresses the thought, Damn it!
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